Some miscreants knifed to death a local leader of Jubo League (JL) in Narsingdi town on Thursday afternoon. The dead is Shawpan Miah, 32, son of Late Omar Ali, a resident of Pachhim Dattapara of the district town and a...
Some muggers snatched away Tk 1.08 million (10,80,000) after shooting a businessman at Mirpur in Dhaka city on Thursday night. The victim was identified as Sharif Nasir Hossain, 28, money exchange trader and resident of Janata Housing at Mirpur. Police,...
Nearly 5 million people living illegally in the United States can escape deportation under sweeping changes to the US immigration system. President Barack Obama unveiled his plan, which he is enacting without Congress, in a televised address. Republicans have argued...
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has acknowledged that the people do not receive benefits of the government’s annual development programme (ADP) because of corruption. ‘We spend Tk 800 billion on the ADP. Where does the money go? How many years...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday paid rich tributes to the martyred members of Bangladesh Armed Forces on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day. The PM paid the homage by placing a floral wreath at Shikha Anirban (flame eternal)...
President Abdul Hamid on Friday paid homage to the martyred members of Bangladesh Armed Forces on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day. The President paid the homage by placing wreaths at Shikha Anirban (flame eternal) at Dhaka Cantonment in...
Police in a drive arrested a man along with 2,950 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup in Elenga bus stand area of Kalihati Uapzila of Tangail district on Thursday. The arrestee was identified as Aksar Ali, 42, son of Abdus Sattar...
A meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee will be held in the conference room of the Islamic Foundation (IF) at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque complex in the city on Sunday. The meeting will be held at 6:00pm and it...
The Dow and S&P 500 finished at record highs on Thursday as data showed further strength in the US economy and Intel gave an upbeat forecast. Tech shares gave the market its biggest lift, along with energy. Boosting all three...
Most Asian stock markets rose on Friday on data showing broad US economic strength, while the yen rebounded from overnight multi-year lows after a Japanese official expressed concern about the pace of its recent descent. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific...
European shares fell on Thursday as weaker than expected euro zone manufacturing data added to worries about the outlook for growth and triggered a sell-off in southern European stocks. Shares in oil services companies, hammered by oil prices falling below...
Two children received injuries as a crude bomb they were playing with mistaking it for a toy went off at Chand Mituani village in Belkuchi Upazila of Sirajganj district on Thursday. The injured children were identified as Sizan, 5, son...
A fire broke out at a paper mill in Kalurghat BSCIC Industrial Area in the outskirts of Chittagong city on Friday morning. Fire Service and Civil Defence sources said the fire erupted at 'Mir Paper Mill' in the BSCIC Industrial...
A case has been filed against 40 local leaders and activists of Swechchhasebak Dal, volunteer front of BNP, in connection with Wednesday’s clash between police and them in Faridpur district town. Swechchhasebak Dal district convener Syed Julfiker Hossain Jewel is...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel seized Indian goods worth Tk4.8 million at Amrakhali border point in Benapole on early Friday. Acting on secret information, a team of BGB-26 conducted a drive in the area and recovered the Indian contrabands worth...
The United National Children’s Fund (Unicef) emphasised urgent action to prevent millions of children from missing out on the benefits of innovation. Connectivity and collaboration can fuel new global networks to leverage innovation to reach every child, according to the...
One independent MP and a Jatiya Party (JP) lawmaker have demanded that the government take stern actions against the officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines involved in gold smuggling. JP MP Kazi Firoz Rashid and Haji Selim (independent) raised the issue...
Bangladesh has urged the United States to grant preferential market access for Bangladeshi products as accorded to other developing countries of the Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States Mohammad Ziauddin made the request when he...
Teachers, students, officials and employees of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) formed a human chain in Khulna city on Thursday in protest against killing of Rajshahi University professor AKM Shafiul Islam. Addressing a rally after the human chain,...
Adilur Rahman Khan, an eminent human rights lawyer of Bangladesh, received the 2014 Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award in a ceremony in Capitol Hill in Washington DC on Thursday. Presented annually by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice...
A mobile court (MC) in Munshiganj on Thursday sentenced seven-day jail to a teacher for supplying copy to a JSC candidate in cheating in the examination hall. The court, led by magistrate and Upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) of Tongibari Upazila,...
Tributes have been paid to martyred war heroes with solemnity on the Armed Forces Day. A remembrance ceremony was held at Shikha Anirban (Eternal Flame) in Dhaka Cantonment on Friday morning. The day is observed each year on November 21...
Two persons were killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka's Paltan and Mirpur on Friday. Of the victims, one was identified as Md Shariful Islam, 30, son of Nur Biswas, a resident of Nektar Gali of Manda in the city's...
President Barack Obama imposed the most sweeping immigration reform in a generation on Thursday, easing the threat of deportation for some 4.7 million undocumented immigrants and setting up a clash with Republicans who vow to fight his moves. In a...
Police have arrested 17 persons over the clash at Shahjajal University of Science and Technology (SUST) in Sylhet. A case was filed by the police against 250 unidentified people over the clash between 2 rival groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League...
A dialogue on Recapturing the Momentum in the Post-Bali Process of the WTO will be held tomorrow (Saturday) at 3.00 pm at Lakeshore Hotel, Gulshan in the city. Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in partnership with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Bangladesh...
The government has decided to build about 1,400 overpasses at level crossings across Bangladesh to avert accidents. The announcement came after a meeting of a panel of the parliament on Thursday amid growing number of accidents and deaths at authorised...
The Tigers have the opportunity to gain vital rankings points when they go head-to-head in a 5-match one-day international (ODI) series against the visiting Zimbabwe national cricket team starting on Friday afternoon. The first ODI begins at 1:30pm local time...
The government has fixed a target of producing 8.78 million tonnes potato from 0.45m hectares of land in the country during the 2014-2015 Robi season, official sources said. Under the programme, farmers of the country's northern region will produce 6.15m...
BNP leader Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal has been released from jail after he secured bail in a case of attempted violence before a shutdown. Authorities at Dhaka Central Jail-1 at Gazipur’s Kashimpur released the party's youth affiliate chief around 11am...
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